If we've ever met in person and you've wondered "Gee, how did he get this way," I finally have a solid answer.

(source: https://www.tumblr.com/ejlandsman/135780556301/i-dont-feel-like-this-is-done-but-im-posting-it)

Dystopian: starts with Couriers and ends up being all of us. I have an office job but receive monthly reports of my movements (home visits) and how much time online. Won't be long before that info is used to worsen my experience in the workplace?

#JoinATradeUnion #work

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/22/fired-by-ai-just-eat-uk-couriers-deactivated-for-minor-overpayments?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Republicans passed a bill in Texas to end countywide-voting, which allows voters to choose polling locations that are convenient or have short lines, and a bill allowing the state to take over county election administration on flimsy pretexts.

If signed into law, the fix is in. Republicans will close locations in opposition areas to engineer impossibly long lines for democrats, but keep voting fast and easy for Republicans.

#RepublicanExtremism #TxLege #Texas

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-senate-passes-bill-end-countywide-voting-election-day-rcna80829

Associate Justice Alito's dissent in the abortion pill case reads like he is starting to suffer from irritability and that he is suffering a lack of restraint.

Or maybe he is just a manchild mad at the women on the Supreme Court for not letting him get his way.

I think perhaps lost in all of the algorithm vs. no-algorithm debate around social media is that it's a false dichotomy. Here are my three rules around algorithms:

1. They should be optional. Never default to a feed algo.
2. They should be transparent. No dark UX, no shadow bans, no creepy/political boosts.
3. There should be more than one and/or be infinitely tweakable. Why “the YouTube algorithm”? Why is it ludicrously hard to customize or change in any way?

Which brings me to Mastodon…